Bat (Mammalia: Chiroptera) diversity in an area of mangrove forest in southern Pernambuco, Brazil, with a new species record and notes on ectoparasites (Diptera: Streblidae)

Updated species list of the bat ectoparasitic flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae and Streblidae) in the state of Paraíba, Northeastern Brazil

“…Our records expand the knowledge on bat ectoparasites in northeastern Brazil, where this group is still poorly https://doi.org/10. 22201/ib.20078706e.2019.90.2485 studied, despite advances in recent years Santos et al, 2013;Soares et al, 2013Soares et al, , 2016Soares et al, , 2017. It is likely that the diversity of environments/roosts sampled in this study (e.g., man-made constructions, coastal vegetation, mangroves) have favored the fly species richness recorded here.…”

“…Currently, throughout northeastern Brazil, 47 streblid and only 3 nycteribiid species have been recorded infesting 8 bat families, mainly Phyllostomidae (Barbier & Bernard, 2017). Despite the advance in recent years (Bezerra et al, 2016;Santos et al, 2013;Soares et al, 2013Soares et al, , 2016, species richness in the northeastern is underestimated and the majority of states is undersampled or lack information about bat ectoparasitic flies' diversity (Barbier & Bernard, 2017). The state of Paraíba, for instance, has had only 1 survey on bat ectoparasitic flies -conducted in the Caatinga (seasonally dry tropical forest)-with 10 species recorded .…”

Moscas ectoparasitas (Diptera, Streblidae) de morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) em um remanescente periurbano de Cerrado: composição da comunidade, prevalência, intensidade de infestação e especificidade

“…Essa espécie de morcego é frequentemente relatada com baixas prevalências de infestação em diversos estudos no Brasil (e.g. Camilloti et al, 2010;França et al, 2013;Lourenço et al, 2014;Urbieta et al, 2014;Soares et al, 2016;Dornelles et al, 2017), podendo chegar à ausência de parasitismo (e.g. Erikson et al, 2011;Barbier & Graciolli, 2016), e com maiores prevalências relatadas em sua associação com A. phyllostomatis (Rui & Graciolli, 2005;França et al, 2013).…”

First record of Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Schinz, 1821) in Brazilian mangroves, with comments on bat diversity in this ecosystem

“…During a bat survey at Guapimirim Environmental Protection Area (APA Guapimirim), located in Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil, we sampled the long-legged bat Macrophyllum macrophyllum (Schinz, 1821) (Phyllostomidae, Phyllostominae). Previously unknown in Brazilian mangroves (Lourenço et al 2010;Soares et al 2016), this species forages over water and has a distribution associated to the presence of perennial rivers (Feijó et al 2015). It is widely distributed in the Neotropical region, occurring from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, except in Chile and Uruguay (Williams & Genoways 2008).…”

“…By covering long distances during flight, they can help connect mangroves with terrestrial habitats (Hogarth 2015). Bats, however, are clearly undersampled in Brazilian mangroves Soares et al 2016;Vargas-Mena et al 2018): of the 16 coastal states with mangroves (ICMBio 2018), only four (Pará, Maranhão, Pernambuco, and Rio de Janeiro) have published bat inventories in this ecosystem (Cruz et al 2007;Andrade et al 2008;Lourenço et al 2010;Soares et al 2016). This gap is also seen in other Neotropical countries, with few studies being specifically conducted in mangroves (Moreno-Bejarano & Álvarez-León 2003;Salas 2010;Araúz et al 2020).…”